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Welcome to the Portal for the Chief Compliance
Officer (CCO)
The
Chief Compliance Officer (CCO)
of a company is primarily responsible for overseeing and
managing compliance within an organization, ensuring that the
company and its employees are complying:
1.
With regulatory requirements
2.
With internal policies and procedures
The Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) is
the architect & steward of enterprise
compliance strategy, structure and processes.
As the compliance leader and
subject matter expert, the
Chief Compliance Officer is responsible for establishing
standards and implementing procedures to ensure that the
compliance programs throughout the organization are effective
and efficient in identifying, preventing, detecting and
correcting noncompliance with applicable rules and regulations.
The Chief Compliance Officer has to provide reasonable
assurance to Senior Management and the Board of Directors that
there are effective and efficient policies and procedures in
place, well understood and respected by all employees, and that
the company is complying with all regulatory requirements.
The Chief Compliance Officer must report directly to the Chief
Executive Officer. He must also inform the Board of Directors
about important issues and material violations.
Chief Compliance officer's duties
include:
• Maintaining
current knowledge of laws and regulations, keeping abreast of
recent changes
• Developing the annual compliance work
plan that reflects the institution's highest risks that will be
monitored by the compliance function as determined by conducting
a mandatory annual risk assessment using an enterprise wide
approach.
• Providing guidance to the board of
directors, senior management, staff, and employees on compliance
• Overseeing and monitoring the implementation of the
compliance program
• Developing policies and programs
that encourage managers and employees to report suspected fraud
and other improprieties without fear of retaliation.
•
Reporting on a regular basis on the progress of implementation,
and assisting these components in establishing methods to
improve efficiency and quality of services, and to reduce the
vulnerability to fraud, abuse, and waste
• Periodically
revising the program in light of changes in the needs of the
organization, and in the law and policies and procedures of
government and private payer health plans
• Developing,
coordinating, and participating in a multifaceted educational
and training program that focuses on the elements of the
compliance program, and seeks to ensure that all appropriate
employees and management are knowledgeable of, and comply with,
pertinent federal and state standards
• Developing
materials at an institutional level for distribution to all
employees to enhance awareness of compliance activities,
including posters
• Coordinating internal compliance
review and monitoring activities,
including periodic reviews of
departments
• Responding to government investigations and
queries as the principal
oint of contact
• Independently
investigating and acting on matters related to compliance,
including the flexibility to design and coordinate internal
investigations (e.g., responding to reports of problems,
'hot-line' calls, or suspected violations) and any resulting
corrective actions with all health system departments, providers
and sub-providers, agents and, if appropriate, independent
contractors
• Monitoring external audit review
processes, maintains awareness of compliance issues, and in
conjunction with the Office of General Counsel and senior
management, responds to administrative inquiries related to
compliance issues or audits.
You can read about:
1.
The Role of the Chief Compliance
Officer
2.
The Challenges for the Chief
Compliance Officer
3.
Books for the Chief Compliance
Officer
4.
Jobs for the Chief Compliance Officer
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